Last week, we hosted our first ever Developer Night at Opticon. Over 100 developers, product managers, and analysts showed up for a great evening of tacos, drinks, and lightning talks. Below are the top five lessons from Developer Night:

#1: How to Integrate a Messenger Bot with Optimizely X Full Stack

We kicked the night off with an overview of Optimizely’s developer platform by Andreas Bloomquist, Optimizely Demo Engineer. He showed off a way to experiment with a Facebook Messenger bot with Optimizely’s Full Stack Node.JS SDK.

#2: How to improve Optimizely Client-Side Performance

Next, our performance experts, Michael Hood and Greeshma Yellareddy shared some of the top tips for measuring and improving client-side website performance when using Optimizely. The three key tips they shared were:

#3: How to Programmatically Manage Optimizely Extensions with the REST API

Following that, Johanna Goergen an engineer on the Optimizely App Platform showed off how using the REST API, a developer could build a command line interface for programmatically managing and updating extensions at scale and made her application available as open-source on Github.

#4: How to QA Optimizely X Web and Full Stack Experiments

This was followed by a talk by Dyel Kassa Koumba, a Technical Support Engineer based in Amsterdam who showed off how to QA experiments in the Optimizely chrome extension for Optimizely X Web and the whitelisting feature for Optimizely X Full Stack.

If you’re based in the New York area, we’ve got another exciting developer event coming up in a couple of weeks. John Cline, Senior Engineering Manager at Blue Apron will be giving a fireside chat on how they built their experimentation program on top of Optimizely X Full Stack on November 7th at 6pm.